A Day In The Life of a trailer

7:15am: Wake up with both boys snuggling in bed. Chris has already fed and walked the dogs and scurried off to his work place for the day (here it is a coworking office). I send the kids out when they start wrestling and hear the Cheerios tip over and listen to the clean up before I come out.

7:30am: Oliver goes on his morning "laps". He has started running by himself in the mornings...not far, but it's something I support 200%!

7:40am: Start cream of wheat for Ollie and I, clean up, start coffee. Kids are playing outside.

8:30am: Walk to the camp laundry and start two loads.

9am: Hunt down kids who took off on their bikes. Request to be told where they are going next time. All walk back to switch laundry around.

9:10am: Start school. Calendar and map work always start our day. 

9:30am: Move into reading and writing. Today is all about the AD word family (dad, mad, had...). The story comes from our curriculum, Oak Meadow. Draw our accompanying pictures while having conversations with Mike and Nana. Next up is the Louisiana flag. We take advantage of our travels by drawing flags and studying different environments from where we have been. So far we've seen mountains, deserts, mountain tundras, woods, beach and swamp land.

10:20am: Walk over to the laundy and fold one of the loads that is finished. Both of the boys think this is super fun, so much so that Oliver has to run laps in the laundry room.

10:30am: Start science, a potato growth experiment. Hunt for sticks to put in the potato and set it up in the sun. We draw our pictures and make our predictions of what the potato is going to do.

10:45am: Start lunch. It sounds crazy, but we are all ready! Boys work in their writing and spelling workbooks while I make sandwiches and smoothies.

11:15am: Ourside playtime. Kids catch bugs and ask me to look up what they eat. Today they have black ants and earwigs. Some football ends in scraped knees and Austin takes Oliver inside to be bandaged up. They get out the first aid kit, wash the cut and bandage it.

12:05pm: back to the laundry to fold the second load.

12:30pm: We turn on an audio book (How To Train Your Dragon, book 10). We listen to it over our surround sound while I put away laundry and the boys take out one of their skeleton excavation sets. I make tea.

2:20pm: Math time! We gather round the kitchen table with snacks and read from our math curriculum, Life of Fred. We follow it up with a couple pages in the kids math workbooks and then play with our base ten blocks.

3pm: Time for showers! We usually shower in the camper, but if I want to get the kiddos and myself clean in one swoop we do mid day showers in the camp showers...then it's not too cold to walk back after!

3:30pm: Back to the camper for snacks and more of the audio book (yes. Going on to hour 3). While Austin can sit and listen to these for hours on end, Oliver usually needs something to do with his hands. Today we make paper airplanes. Sometimes I use this time to get stuff done, but for the most part I like to lay around and listen with the kiddos so we can talk about the different vocabulary words and themes throughout the books. That said, Austin has listened to some of these long chapter books 4 times, so then he puts on headphones while Ollie and I play games or Ollie does something on his own and I read my own book, chat with a friend or scroll online.

4:15pm: Take dogs and paper airplanes out for a walk.

4:50pm: We return to clean up. Fortunately the boys still think this is fun, so Austin vacuums, Oliver puts things away and I do dishes.

5:10pm: We all gather to read Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator.

5:30pm: Austin pops on his headphones and sits down to another story. Oliver draws and I start planning some upcoming travel.

6pm: I start dinner and hold conversation with Oliver who is claiming nobody wants to play with him. I catch up with friends and family on the phone and serve dinner  at the same time. Chris is working late tonight so no family meal this evening.

7:15pm: Feed the pups and take them out. Dinner is cleaned up and kids are flying airplanes and telling jokes. 

7:50pm: Chris gets home and grabs his dinner. Boys and Chris head outside with headlamps to play and take the dogs for a walk. Two minutes later I am consoling a hurt Oliver (again! Growth spurt?) I send him back out. I have a glass of wine and catch up on facebook.

8:45pm: The trio returns. Another snack before bed and then it's all about flossing/brushing/Jammie's and shenanigans. 

9:10pm: Kids are in bed, Chris starts reading.

9:40pm: Kids are asleep. Chris and I head to bed. Time for me to check my CrimeMap! In a camper, there is only so much room to hang out. In warmer weather we would sit outside, but inside its more comfortable to just be in bed than sitting side by side on the couch!

Tomorrow will be completely different! Tomorrow the kids and I will have the truck. We have plans on visiting the library, WW2 Museum, and City Park over the next week. The rhythm of the day is usually the same though...wake and start school around 9. Instructional focus for 2 hours, have lunch, explore and come back together for books and math. Chris is typically home around 6 and we have dinner around 6:30. Things are flexible though as that is what this year is about!